i am. i am. i am. this is deja vu news live from but venezuela's president says he survived a drone attack in the capital on hong kong in the face of. my daughter was attending a military parade when the alleged incident occurred and now the plane day my daughter says colombia is behind the apparent assassination attempt as well as venezuelan exiles living in the u.s. we'll have the u.s. response and all the latest from qatar and also coming up. a powerful earthquake

strikes in the media's island of long ball where reports of several people killed this just a week after a separate quake on the same line and left more than a dozen of people day in. the a. i am. i'm alive ahead of the humphrey glad you could join me well the blame game is underway off an apparent assassination attempt on venezuelan president nicolas maduro after an alleged drone bomb attack during a military parade on saturday when the road blamed colombia and venezuela an x. saul's living in the u.s. state of florida u.s. national security adviser john bolton pushed back on that just a short time ago. there was no u.s. government involvement in this at all just within the past couple of hours i've spoken with our charge a in caracas the head diplomatic official down there he and his staff are up much

of the night making sure that americans in venezuela are safe as of now now with respect to what happened last afternoon look could be a lot of things from a pretext set up by the majority in itself to something else the u.s. national security adviser now let's take a look at how that alleged attack unfolded it is venezuelan president my daughter was speaking at a military parade in caracas. by monday in full flow suddenly cut short this footage broadcast live on state television shows the moment when an apparent explosion rocked the military parade sending hundreds fleeing on foot. the government declared it an assassination attempt. on her mommy face which i don't want to see on the explosions were heard which we have established as coming from multiple drone idea. of the fact of what i want to get people to

not think it was an attempt on the life of the president of venezuela nicolas maduro but to put everyone at ease the attack has failed or that it was not a sort of complete i mean in a sort. just hours later mudra gave a defiant speech speculating that the incident was a right wing conspiracy with ties abroad until she handle an infant thoughts i see not a movie there has been an attempt to assassinate me. i have no doubt that this all points to the extreme right in venezuela and in alliance with the right in colombia and that colombia's president one man one sentosa is behind this attempt i have no doubt. the socialist president has often accused the right wing opposition of plotting a coup but as the economy continues to weaken widespread protests have become one of the biggest threats to ma duros of ministration. joined now by correspondent all

skosh lanka who's in the venezuelan capital caracas welcome all skin now venezuela's government says this alleged attack on my daughter involved drones on to the explosives that fire fighters both have disputed that they say gas senator explained it what concrete facts all that about this. well the only facts we are get council eyewitnesses that reported seeing a flying object explode near the stairs were present about who it was and also the remains of an explosion or gas cylinders in a nearby apartment other than that there is a video that we're seeing where it's really not clear what's going on now the government has to reveal the evidence that's their claim because there's a lot of skepticism to bear in their claim that it was how this was president he claims to have had over fifty assassination plots against my guru and his career has claimed over twenty assassination plots but this is the first time we see one

actually play out if it is an elaborate lie that the evidence would be able to improve their credibility but for now we have not seen much also we understand there's been some claims of involvement and responsibility tell us about those. yes there's a group kong that she shouldn't soldiers that put out a memo on social media claiming responsibility on the attack and calling the operation phoenix they say they're bad by the constitution and that they are planning to change the government you're going to swell up but there's really no way to verify that it is an actual claim some journalists have backed it up but it is still unclear if this is an actual claim of responsibility for these actions circlet from the so-called. soldiers my daughter says that some of those allegedly

involved have been arrested do we know who they are we don't know much of who they are we know that there is at least four people arrested after the attack some. leaders of the government have said that they were arrested trying to flee. after the bombs and slowed it but there's not much information other than that and what the president said in his speech last say accusations seconding at the moment little evidence at this stage have we had from the accused well the opposition has been very quiet. and this is the situation but there is. one of the groups the opposition groups has says that they are very worried that there's more accusations that investigations about this action and they are saying that there there are claims you change this document is constitutional and

as should be made such not violence actions against the government also in the venezuelan capital caracas thank you for your reporting and analysis. let's get a quick check check now on some of the other stories making news around the world south sudan's government and the country's main opposition group have reached a final peace deal and power sharing agreement the deal will lead to the formation of a unity government the country's been torn by civil war since it gained independence from sudan in twenty eleven though. police in switzerland have confirmed that twenty people were killed off say vintage airplane crashed in the swiss alps on saturday the world war two aircraft smashed into the mountainside as an altitude of around two thousand five hundred meters off just taking off from mcconnell the plane was carrying seventeen passengers and three crew. wildfires

have kicked up in southern portugal over one of the hottest weekends on record the iberian peninsula hundreds of firefighters were sent to battle a forest fire we've the assistance of aircraft europe wide heat wave has been especially severe in portugal and spain with temperatures exceeding forty five degrees celsius on saturday while a strong earthquake has struck the indonesian island of lone bako officials there say that three people have died with the death toll expected to rise well the seven point zero magnitude quake struck the northern part of lombok early on sunday evening and early a tsunami warning has now been lifted officials say strong ten tremors damaged buildings across the island of long book and in nearby barly last week an earthquake on a mobile killed at least sixteen people. want to go i spoke

to journalist a critic of vatican in jakarta and asked him about the situation in the book. well as you sent there been three casualties register so far this comes after seventeen people mostly tourists were killed last week when another huge earthquake hit the same highland earthquake only passed about four hours ago so they were better prepared and there's no longer a tsunami warning but the disaster agency has warned everyone who is on long island today kate to higher ground despite the tsunami warning being lifted and aftershocks of the quake of which there were over sixty were felt as far as bali which is a very popular tourist destination as well. across the car of course certainly a week ago there was that six point four magnitude earthquake that you mentioned exactly in the same location that killed over a dozen people of course as early days but does this quake look as bad well in terms of magnitude slightly higher at six point nine to six point four but

basically because it came so quickly after the last one many of the most vulnerable vulnerable residents of lombok are already in camps have vacated their homes and there are already much much he worked worse than there were just last week so looking at the casualties will be fewer this time around but yes the magnitude is greater than the one last. critic of a to go in and she caught a thank you thanks for having. sports news now and at the european championships in glasgow there was more joy for germany eight at the pool as florian available took gold in the men's fifteen hundred meter freestyle the twenty year old clocked a national record of fourteen minutes thirty six point one five seconds to finish ahead of ukraine's me. and it's a nice going to three and yadi and was germany's second swimming gold of the weekend off the best surprise win in the freestyle mixed relay. when

a football strike has retired from the german national team off to an eleven year international career saying he wants to make way for a new generation all players in january the posey free rope moves back to his point that plucks to scoring eight goals in sixteen games and earning a surprise call up to germany's world cup squad after missing else on their trials in twenty fourteen interest banished father and german mother he chose to play for the country of his making his debut in two thousand and seven he finished the city's germany career with thirty one goals in the seventy eight appearance. toni kroos has been a name germany's player all of the year by the sports journalists association beating five news pitocin in second place with almost five times as many votes avail madrid matilda was rewarded for another excellent club season which to him

claimed a third a straight champions league title other winners included jennifer merritt yan who is named best female player a new pine cuz in the coaching category he retired after leading by munich to the league title. european commission has a question for residents of the e.u. should the bloc give up daylight savings time while the e.u. sets its clocks back one hour in the summits take advantage of mongered daylight hours the proposition has generated a flood of reactions online in this weekend the commission released initial participation numbers and so far over one million people have cost their votes will report to air until that has been following the story and you can see him he ate at the studio with me good to see you are now why is the european commission looking into getting rid of data saving time or basically the reaction to a propositional request from a lot of from early nordic and northern european states apparently the daylight

savings is a rather complicated issue when. comes to europe on the one side proponents say it helps save energy it also gives people more leisure time in the summer they can take advantage of the longer daylight hours if they get up a little bit later and also just kind of proves the business output of the block as a whole now its detractors say the exact opposite is true that actually say that it represents an undue stress on the economy that there are new energy savings and they also even say that it has actually has negative effects when it comes to health saying that you're most likely or more likely to die of a stroke or a heart attack and the times just after the time is changed and also a lot of these nordic countries don't really benefit from the extra daylight hours because they're there daylight time actually varies much more extremely than it does here in central europe are reports that aren't tilton on this thanks very much indeed. on our mind and now is the top story we're following for you but as wade as president nicolas maduro hasa survived what he calls an

assassination attempt carried out with explosive laden drugs do it opening the alleged attack on colonia and a venezuelan exiles living in the u.s. on the u.s. deny any involvement. you're watching news live from berlin don't forget you can always check out our web site for more that is of course d w dot com for all that i just you can also follow us on facebook and find us on twitter as well d.w. underscore news on heaven i'll trade imbalance thanks as ever feel company and here again at the top of the hour for the rest of your news from i.

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